Sex selection of babies for non-medical reasons is set to be outlawed in the UK under Government plans for a shake-up of embryology regulation.

Embryology regulation. That sounds better than abortion and eugenics.Abortionists are a creative lot, ain't they?

Health Minister Caroline Flint told MPs she was minded to introduce a "clear and specific ban" on the use of new techniques to choose one gender of baby.

But why? Isn't it the woman's body, Fraulein NAZI REPUG BUSHITLER!!!???What about her sacrosanct, no-restriction-laden right to choose?And why does it matter, Carol? Male? Female?It's not a real person anyway, so what the hell?

Allowing parents to pick sex for reasons such as "balancing" the make-up of their family could be the start of a "slippery slope" to designer babies, she warned.

Designer babies? That's EXACTLY what you want, you just want to be in charge of the design!What's the matter, sweetheart? Afraid someone might want to have a boy instead of a girl?Are you perhaps insinuating that an embryo of one gender is superior to another?I thought liberal chicks were more enlightened than that.

But the ban would not prevent British people going abroad where such practices were legal, she accepted.

Thank goodness! At least they're a little civilized!

Ms Flint also indicated that rules allowing fertility clinics to block treatment for single women and lesbian couples could be scrapped. Present regulations include the need for a father in considerations of the future child's welfare - an element the Government considered should go, she said.

Pfffft - Dads, who needs them? Only losers have dads that are around.Just call them genetic doners.

The Minister said more detailed proposals would be unveiled later in the year, probably over the summer.

Other measures set to be part of the reforms include new criteria on what medical conditions embryos can be screened for.

No wonder you want to be in charge, with the power of life and death; to create a perfect utopia.Just think, maybe they can scan for all defectivess, and then we'll have a genetically perfect society!!Oooh, I can hardly wait!!

I'll forgo the Germanic history references at this point, even thought they are apropros.

At present preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) is licensed to let parents who carry genes for a serious condition - such as cystic fibrosis and Huntington's disease - avoid passing the faulty gene on to their children.

But it is now also possible to test embryos for some cancers caused by a "lower penetrance" gene - meaning not everyone who inherits the faulty gene will go on to develop the disease.

Giving evidence to the Commons science and technology committee, Ms Flint also rejected calls for a review of the abortion time limit. Professional bodies had presented no scientific evidence to back demands for an inquiry into whether the present 24-week limit should be shortened.

So come on all you womyn!!! Go protest this horrible affront to the choice movement.SLIPPERY SLOPE!! HOCKEY STICK!!! HALIBURTON!!!!